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We Need an Energy Efficient Air Conditioner: We ought to Start a "Manhattan Project" to build our way out of Climate Change. Here are Two Worthy Ideas! gvan42

Last Summer we had Over a Week of 113 Degree Heat... and a Mighty BILL... as Global Warming becomes IN YOUR FACE REAL... People all Over the Earth will want to buy Air Conditioners... Especially Europe... Where the vast majority of people Do Not Own Air Conditioners... and Old People were Dying during the heat wave... and COST of Power is a Big Factor... What IF there was a Better Way?

Air conditioners are terrible for the environment, which is complicated by the fact that they’re increasingly necessary as outside temperatures increase. This could be one solution.


What IF We Made This a Practical Worldwide Solution? Maybe the Federal Government COULD Switch Funding for Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Use that Money to Do Good?

Share these Ideas with Your Elected Officials... Maybe they Could Work Smart! Pass Laws that Actually Make America Great... Ya Think? 

Contact Your Senators:

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A Better Way to Cool Ourselves
A new technique doesn’t deprive us of fresh air. And because it uses less energy, it’s good for the climate as well. As an international collaboration of researchers from institutions in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Singapore, we developed a simple, cheap, scalable solution to keeping people comfortable without regulating indoor air temperature. Our technology relies on the concept of radiant heat transfer, which involves the cooling or heating of the surfaces surrounding people, instead of cooling or heating the air. We all experience radiant heat transfer, even if we’ve rarely heard the term. Radiant heating is the feeling of the hot sun on our face during a cool spring day. Radiant heating is the direct warmth of a campfire keeping us toasty during a cool summer night. Radiant cooling is the same physics, but in the opposite direction. Radiant heat always flows from warmer to cooler surfaces. Just as the campfire loses its heat to our cool skin, and we feel warm, on a hot summer day, we can surround our body with cold surfaces, and feel comfortable. We lose our body heat to the cool surfaces around us. In an initial demonstration of our radiant system that we installed in Singapore, called the “Cold Tube,” we made people feel cool with 100 percent fresh air using 50 percent less energy, and therefore, half the associated carbon emissions required by a typical air conditioner. In our latest research, we show that this technology can be used in every major climate zone, and would result in an average energy savings of 10–45 percent, while increasing ventilation substantially in critical spaces like public schools.
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What WAS the Manhattan Project? Many People Will NOT Recognize the Name... SO... Here's a Link to Get Educated!

Adobe Houses are Very Energy Efficient and Quiet. Thick Mud Walls stay Cool in the Summer, Warm in the Winter. AND THEY RESIST FOREST FIRES... Tile Roofs Do Not Burn when a Spark Lands on Them...

When we rebuild Paradise and Santa Rosa, California it might be an Opportunity to Use Smart Design Ideas. I remember going inside the Mission Santa Clara on a Hot Summer Day... Built over 200 years ago, it has withstood Earthquakes.

Adobe Walls and a Tile Roof - RESISTS FOREST FIRES - MEME - gvan42



Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using the Grid. WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS...   HERE IS ONE...
https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting

and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/
Lighting for Streets and Roadways Provided by Sustainable Solar Power... SEPCO’s solar powered street lighting systems are an efficient means to provide lighting without the need for standard utility power. Every system provides cost savings by eliminating the need to trench standard electric wires for installation and providing no electric bill for the life of the system. Solar street lights have been installed on highways, freeways, neighborhood streets, rural roads, etc. and provide security, sustainability and an overall green image.


People will Write Anything if They are Paid... Check out this Bogus Pro-Nuke article by a "Fellow" at The Heritage Foundation... Stephen Moore: "Tell Me Boss, What's the Conclusion You Want."

He spends half a sentence on atomic waste in this article... That's the fatal flaw of Nuclear Power... You have to store it for thousands of years and guard it as well... We can't have terrorists stealing the radioactive waste to build a dirty bomb... Or Have a FREAK Place a Stick of Dynamite under a Storage Cask... 

He says: "I'm not a cheerleader for nuclear power." [that's a dead give-away that he IS a Cheerleader for Nuclear Power]  "The storage of nuclear waste and the accidents such as Fukushima make everyone understandably nervous." He's Right! People ARE nervous... Nukes are dangerous! Not Just Now but for 10,000 YEARS into the Future!

I heard that people near Three Mile Island could Taste The Air... It tasted "Metallic".

One thing he fails to notice is that power companies hate Nuclear power and love solar/wind. No new nukes have been built since the 1970's and hundreds of solar/wind plants have been built... That's reality. PG&E and SoCal Edison simply refuse to go Nuke.

Stephen Moore: Author of "Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy"

http://www.qconline.com/opinion/why-do-the-greens-hate-nuclear-power/article_74619ff7-da99-5e9b-9e34-c5e3b2a6ee12.html

Electric Power Generator
Converts Human Fat into Electricity
The House budget proposal for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation next year would add almost $54 million to the amount requested by the Trump administration.
http://komonews.com/news/local/house-budget-restores-54-million-to-hanford-nuke-cleanup

No Nukes meme by gvan42 - copy and paste this worldwide

No Nukes meme by gvan42 - copy and paste this worldwide

No Nukes meme by gvan42 - copy and paste this worldwide

No Nukes meme by gvan42 - copy and paste this worldwide

No Nukes meme by gvan42 - copy and paste this worldwide

No Nukes meme by gvan42 - copy and paste this worldwide

No Nukes meme by gvan42 - copy and paste this worldwide

THEY DID NAZI THAT COMING. Russians Holding Nuclear Power Plants Hostage. "Surrender or We'll Explode a Dirty Bomb and Freaking Nuke Europe." - Possible Threat by Putin!

Of all the Horrible things about Atomic Power... This is Something the Designers Did Not Plan For. 

I Hope that Russia Does NOT Get Frantic at the End of this War and Blow Up a Power Plant for Revenge... When they Lose... 

I don't want to add Zaporizhzhia to the List... ChernobylFukushimaTMISanta Susana Field LaboratoryNyonoksa ... 


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/02/analysis-nuclear-disaster-ukraine-could-make-swaths-europe-uninhabitable-decades

Analysis: Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine Could Make Swaths of Europe 'Uninhabitable for Decades'

Russia's assault on Ukraine risks nuclear devastation "far worse even than the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe of 2011," Greenpeace warns.

Russia Accused of 'Nuclear Terror' After Fire at Zaporizhzhia Power Plant

"This is the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe," said one nuclear non-proliferation group. "We are perched on the precipice of catastrophe."

SOLAR, WIND, HYDRO & BIOMASS are Cheaper than Nuclear Power Plants... That's Why We Aren't Building any Nukes. That and the Radioactive Waste That has to be Stored and Guarded for 10,000 Years... To Prevent Terrorists from Building a Dirty Bomb...

The Danger of A Crazy Man Simply Placing a Traditional Bomb Under A Cask of Atomic Waste is IMMENSE... Sometime During the 10,000 Years That Nuclear Waste is Actively Radioactive, It's Almost Certain that a "WhackJob" will Blow It Up!

Unemployed Physics Graduates Can't Get a Job in the Nuclear Power Industry so they Write Magazine Articles all about how wonderful Nukes Are... and Make Pro Nuke Videos...

Unemployed Physics Graduates Can't Get a Job in the Nuclear Power Industry so they Write Magazine Articles all about how wonderful Nukes Are... and Make Pro Nuke Videos...

SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.
In 1976 PG&E Said NO NUKES! and Shut it Down... The Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3 was a 63 MWe boiling water reactor, owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company that operated from August 1963 to July 1976 just south of Eureka, California... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant

SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.

Power - No Nukes concert

SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.
 Remember: The Only Good Nuke is a Decommissioned Nuke... Shut 'em DOWN!

SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.
What is the main reason why fewer nuclear power plants are being built today compared to 40 years ago? Nuclear power plants have become too expensive to generate electricity at a reasonable cost. Which of the following accurately describes the use of fossil fuels for energy?

SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110825210125/
http://redwoodalliance.dreamhosters.com/files/10-98NFT.pdf

Humboldt Nuke Faces Dismantling By Jim Adams Twenty-two years after shutdown, PG&E’s Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant may become the first commercial reactor to be dismantled or decommissioned in the US. A major project got underway in September as the 250 ft. tall concrete vent stack began to be demolished. The utility has also announced its intent to remove 390 spent (irradiated) fuel rods from the pool at the plant, and place them in on-site steel containers called dry casks. For more than a decade, Redwood Alliance has urged PG&E to take this action. This will keep our community safe and allow complete dismantling to take place. Four miles south of Eureka and adjacent to Humboldt Bay, the Humboldt nuke sits on top of and close to major earthquake faults. The Alliance has worked since 1978 to make sure that the nuclear plant, one of the oldest and dirtiest in the country, would never reopen and will be properly dismantled.
SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.

The Nyonoksa radiation accident occurred on 8 August 2019 near Nyonoksa, Russian Federation. Five military and civilian specialists were killed and three (or six, depending on the source) were injured.[1][2][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident
American intelligence officials are racing to understand a mysterious explosion that released radiation off the coast of northern Russia last week, apparently during the test of a new type of nuclear-propelled cruise missile hailed by President Vladimir V. Putin as the centerpiece of Moscow’s arms race with the United States.

Nuclear power is losing ground to renewables in terms of both cost and capacity as its reactors are increasingly seen as less economical and slower to reverse carbon emissions, an industry report said.
Nuclear power is slowly going out of style. Back in 1996, atomic energy supplied 17.6 percent of the world's electricity. Today that's down to just 10.8 percent — and it could drop even further in the years ahead.

The 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change.
Analysis: New nuclear power costs about 5 times more than onshore wind power per kWh. Nuclear takes 5 to 17 years longer between planning and operation and produces on average 23 times the emissions per unit electricity generated. In addition, it creates risk and cost associated with weapons proliferation, meltdown, mining lung cancer, and waste risks. Clean, renewables avoid all such risks.

The hot lab suffered a number of fires involving radioactive materials. For example, in 1957, a fire in the hot cell "got out of control and ... massive contamination" resulted.[23]
At least four of the ten nuclear reactors suffered accidents: 1) The AE6 reactor experienced a release of fission gases in March 1959.[24] 2) In July 1959, the SRE experienced a power excursion and partial meltdown that released 28 Curies of radioactive noble gasses. The release resulted in the maximum off-site exposure of 0.099 millirem and an exposure of 0.018 millirem for the nearest residential building which is well within current limits today.[25] 3) In 1964, the SNAP8ER experienced damage to 80% of its fuel. 4) In 1969 the SNAP8DR experienced similar damage to one-third of its fuel.[24]
A radioactive fire occurred in 1971, involving combustible primary reactor coolant (NaK) contaminated with mixed fission products.[26][27]
The reactors located on the grounds of SSFL were considered experimental, and therefore had no containment structures. Reactors and highly radioactive components were housed without the large concrete domes that surround modern power reactors.[citation needed]

and then a Guy of FaceBorg Said:  
I recommend this page, 
it debunks the lies about "radiation deaths" supposedly caused by nuclear power. Give it an honest try. I used to be against nuclear power, 3 Mile Island was closed, and yet there was no radiation or damage outside the plant itself. Even Fukishima radiation was down to backround levels within a few hundred yards of the plant. Wildlife is everywhere around Chernobyl, with no observed radiation problems. This site will respond to your arguments against nuclear power with reason and demonstrable statisitics to back their argument that it is safe. I support Solar and Wind power, but it is nowhere near being able to completely replace fossil fuels, just ask Germany, with their new gas pipeline coming from Russia.

Why did the Nuclear Waste policy act fail? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is a United States federal law which established a comprehensive national program for the safe, permanent disposal of highly radioactive wastes

The Nuclear Waste Fund previously received $750 million in fee revenues each year and had an unspent balance of $44.5 billion as of the end of FY2017.[8] However (according to the Draft Report by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future), actions by both Congress and the Executive Branch have made the money in the fund effectively inaccessible to serving its original purpose. The commission made several recommendations on how this situation may be corrected.[9]

In December 1987, Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to designate Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the only site to be characterized as a permanent repository for all of the nation's nuclear waste.[11] The plan was added to the fiscal 1988 budget reconciliation bill signed on December 22, 1987.

On March 5, 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a Senate hearing the Yucca Mountain site is no longer viewed as an option for storing reactor waste.[19] 

Regardless of whether you are for or against nuclear power, and no matter what you think of nuclear weapons, the radioactive waste is already here, and we have to deal with it.”


That’s Gerald S. Frankel’s matter-of-fact take on the thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide and the millions of liters of radioactive liquid waste from weapons production that sit in temporary storage containers in the US. While these waste materials, which can be harmful to human health and the environment, wait for a more permanent home, their containers age. In some cases, the aging containers have already begun leaking their toxic contents.

“It’s a societal problem that has been handed down to us from our parents’ generation,” says Frankel, who is a materials scientist at the Ohio State University. “And we are—more or less—handing it to our children.”


IN BRIEF:

More than a quarter million metric tons of highly radioactive waste sits in storage near nuclear power plants and weapons production facilities worldwide, with over 90,000 metric tons in the US alone. Emitting radiation that can pose serious risks to human health and the environment, the waste, much of it decades old, awaits permanent disposal in geological repositories, but none are operational. With nowhere to go for now, the hazardous materials and their containers continue to age. That unsustainable situation is driving corrosion experts to better understand how steel, glass, and other materials proposed for long-term nuclear waste storage containers might degrade. Read on to learn how these researchers’ findings might help protect people and the environment from waste leakages.

Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Symbol Ornament, Earrings, Necklaces for sale. Both sides have art - Slight Variations to the theme - Could be Worn as a Necklace...

Alternative to Atomic Hazard Symbol Ornament
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Alternative to Atomic Hazard Symbol Ornament
by gregvan


Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Earrings for sale.

EACH EAR HAS DIFFERENT ARTWORK. Both are Variations on The Theme... NO NUKES!


ALL My Latest Products:
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BLACK HAT HACKER Embroidered Hat for sale.
Slogan is Embroidered in BLACK THREAD on a BLACK HAT making it Difficult to Read... It's a JOKE!
BLACK HAT HACKER Embroidered Hat for sale.
BLACK HAT HACKER Embroidered Hat for sale.
by gregvan


Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign
Art designed using a Program I Wrote... Colors of the Squares is Calculated using an Algorithm.
Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign
Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign
by gregvan


Postcard for sale.
Art computed by a Javascript Program I Wrote. and then Potatoshopped in paint dot net
Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign Postcard
Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign Postcard
by gregvan


Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE
ALL MY PROFITS DONATED TO GREENPEACE.


Climate Change is Real and we all ought to DO SOMETHING... I don't own a Car... Rarely do I travel except I walk all over the place... every day... and... Everyone Should STOP FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES! 
Just STOP THAT!
Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap
Make America Greta Again Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan


Large Tote Bag - TWO SIDED! 
with different art on each side... 
Both are Variations on the Same Theme... 
NO NUKES!
Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign Large Tote Bag
Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign Large Tote Bag
by gregvan


Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Ornament
TWO SIDED NECKLACE - Different Art on each side - Both are Variations on the Atomic Symbol. BUT Enlightened!
Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Ornament
Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Ornament
by gregvan


Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Large Tote Bag
TWO SIDED ART. Each image is a Variation on the Theme... NO NUKES!
Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Large Tote Bag
Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Large Tote Bag
by gregvan


Two Sided Greeting Card - Rainbow Atomic Symbol
Different Art on each side... Unfold the card and thumbtack it to the wall... for an Automatic Visual Mantra...


Convert Human Fat into Electricity - Generate Power with a Stationary Bicycle - Pollution Free! Buy an Already Assembled Machine or Get Parts & Plans...

ELECTRICITY GENERATING BIKE. Most people understand the concept of a power generating exercise bike; they just don't realise its potential.



CAN I BUY AN ELECTRICITY GENERATING BIKE?
Most people understand the concept of a power generating exercise bike; they just don't realise its potential. It's because microgeneration sounds...well, too small-scale to be useful in the modern world. Of course, that's the point. Microgeneration means small-scale energy production. It's the kind used in homes and small businesses: solar panels on a roof or small-scale wind turbines, for example.

But one of the biggest advantages of this type of clean energy generation is that generally it's less conspicuous and affordable; it's also relatively easy to install and maintain. https://energym.io/blogs/news/can-i-buy-an-electricity-generating-bike

The Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator: create energy and get fit...
The Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator: create energy and get fit...

https://newatlas.com/the-pedal-a-watt-stationary-bike-power-generator-create-energy-and-get-fit/13433/

Pedaling a bike at a reasonable pace generates about 100 watts of power. That's the same energy-per-time used by a 100-watt lightbulb.

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/12/08/504790589/could-you-power-your-home-with-a-bike

Generate Electricity with a Stationary Bicycle. Convert Human Fat into Power...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbUxt2x4InE&t=1s

RUBBER ROLLER DC GENERATOR DYNAMO FOR EXERCISE BIKE

RUBBER ROLLER DC GENERATOR DYNAMO FOR EXERCISE BIKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUr-ACN3ZJ8&t=2s


CAN YOU REALLY POWER YOUR HOME WITH A BICYCLE GENERATOR?
Talk about a way to ease any device-time guilt - power your TV and devices by cycling! As a parent that struggles with device time and kids too, I quite like the idea of teaching kids about climate change and energy efficiency by making them pedal-charge their devices. The effort expended puts energy use into perspective and may just encourage them not to take their device time for granted.

The truth on how to use less energy? Build more efficient homes

For more info on how to build an energy efficient home, or perhaps build an off-grid home, or even how to build an off-grid Tiny Home, check out our building guide pages, or use our Edelweiss House as an example of what is possible when you design for optimum energy efficiency from the beginning, as it only consumes about $600 a year in total energy - that includes all the electricity for lighting, heating, cooking, bathing, and even charging an electric car for an extended daily commute. 

http://www.gulland.ca/homenergy/lindabike.htm
Our neighbor Linda needed a way to boost her house's small solar electric system during cloudy periods. She wondered if a bicycle could be adapted to make enough electrical power for her water pump, which is her minimum electrical need. I was planning to build a wind turbine, including it's low-speed alternator. The turbine alternator I had in mind functions at less than 400 rpm and so does a bicycle wheel. That got me thinking . . . 

There are two types of bicycle generator stands.   Belt drive and roller.   There are pros and cons for using each type of stand.  Here is the summary:  

HPG-75 HUMAN POWER GENERATOR  INSTALLED AT DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM    Rockford, IL

This interactive display provides children with the unique experience  of generating electricity and then selecting which appliances in the home to power up.   The hair drier and blender are  the most difficult item giving the children  a very high resistance to work against.

https://windstreampower.com/ Welcome to Windstream Power LLC.  We are an OEM manufacturer located in Vermont, USA.

We have been supplying Permanent Magnet DC Generators, Voltage Regulators and our Human Power Generator to exhibit fabrication companies, small wind and microhydro manufacturers, as well to hundreds of other industrial applications, all over the world, for 47 years!  

https://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/pedal-powered-generators-zmaz08onzgoe

Make Electricity While You Exercise... 

While you probably won’t produce enough electricity to power your entire house, pedal-powered generators can play a small but useful role in some homes.


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